Home of murder victim Jacob Denton, Los Angeles, 1920-1921
Item Overview
- Title
- Home of murder victim Jacob Denton, Los Angeles, 1920-1921
- Date Created
- [between 1920-1921]
- Date
- 1921/1920
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Louise Peete was convicted on Feb. 5, 1921 of first-degree murder in the death of Jacob Denton. She served 18 years in San Quentin before being released. In 1945 she was convicted of a second murder, this time of Margaret Logan, a wealthy woman who had supported Peete while she was in prison. For the second murder she was given the death penalty, and in 1947 became the second woman to be executed in California.
The home of Jacob Denton, a wealthy mining engineer whose body was found in the basement three months after he disappeared. The house was located at 675 South Catalina Street. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Peete, Louise, Case
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Denton, Jacob C.
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.060762
- Latitude
- -118.295418
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_11201
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h96cx
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .